Our Contributors

Faris Al-Sulayman, Co-Founder of Haala Energy, is a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute and a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics.

Jean-Michel Blanquer, a former French minister of education (2017-22), is Professor of Constitutional Law at Panthéon-Assas University Paris II and President of the Laboratoire de la République.

Anastassia Fedyk is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of California, Berkeley.

Nilima Gulrajani is Principal Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute, where she leads the Donors in a Post-Aid World program, and an associate at Trinity College, University of Toronto.

Steffen Hertog, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics, is the co-author (with Diego Gambetta) of Engineers of Jihad: The Curious Connection Between Extremism and Education (Princeton University Press, 2017).

Marco Kamiya is United Nations Industrial Development Organization Representative for Indonesia, Timor Leste, and the Philippines.

Andrew Kosenko is Assistant Professor of Economics at the School of Management at Marist College.

Desmond Lachman, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, is a former deputy director of the International Monetary Fund’s Policy Development and Review Department and a former chief emerging-market economic strategist at Salomon Smith Barney.

Jonathan Levy, Professor of History at Sciences Po, is the author of Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States (Random House, 2021) and The Real Economy: History and Theory (Princeton University Press, 2025).

Anu Madgavkar is a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute in Newark.

Sami Mahroum, Policy Advisor and Professor of Practice at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, is the author of Black Swan Start-ups: Understanding the Rise of Successful Technology Business in Unlikely Places (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Emilia Marshall is a research fellow at Economists for Ukraine.

Mia Amor Mottley is Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Barbados and a 2025 honoree of the Zayed Award for Human Fraternity.

Marc Canal Noguer is a fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute in Barcelona.

Adenike Oladosu, Global Climate Champion at Education Cannot Wait, was named one of the world’s 100 most influential and inspiring women by the BBC in 2024.

Jaynisha Patel is a senior policy analyst at the Tony Blair Institute.

Midori Paxton is Director of the United Nations Development Programme’s Nature Hub.

Luanna Roncaratti is Deputy Secretary of Digital Government at Brazil’s Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services.

Laurence Tubiana, a former French ambassador to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is CEO of the European Climate Foundation and a professor at the École Normale Supérieure.

Gabriel Zucman is Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and École Normale Supérieure, Summer Research Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the EU Tax Observatory.